Building security for your threat and risk environment

Security Engineering and Design

Regulatory Security Design Compliance

Security engineering and design consulting from Control Risks helps you identify and integrate appropriate electronic and physical security measures into the design of built infrastructure, starting from project inception.

Security risks, operational requirements

Whether you are a developer, owner, security director, architect or constructor, we work to understand your security risks, operational requirements and design philosophy.

Threat-based and risk-commensurate designs work from assessments developed using our own multi-disciplinary risk consulting team. This ensures clarity of purpose, holistic security and cost effectiveness.

Security master planning

This identifies what measures are needed to mitigate risks and defines the development of the strategy required to secure assets and people. Control Risks develops measures to address the identified prevailing risks, factoring in unique site characteristics and any overarching client or legal requirements.

Protective design

We are specialists in quantifying and mitigating the effects of bomb blasts, ballistic events, physical attack and vehicle impacts throughout the built environment.

Whatever the location, we assess the vulnerability of your people and physical assets against recognised damage and injury levels. Then we develop mitigation strategies to reduce these vulnerabilities

Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED)

This and other strategies such as Secured by Design (SBD) use natural surveillance, territorial reinforcement and defensible space to create an environment less likely to attract crime and other threats.

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Building a resilient city

Providing support at every stage of a project life cycle to create successful outcomes and true resilience

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Protective Design and Blast Engineering

Case study: understanding and mitigating terrorism risk exposure at the California HQ of a leading social media company.

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Case study

Protective design and blast engineering

The situation

A leading global social media company based in California was expanding its headquarters at a new site. The company engaged Control Risks to understand its terrorism risk exposures, establish structural design requirements and then act on its behalf in technical discussions with the multi-disciplinary design team.

Control Risks' approach

We conducted an assessment in two stages:

First, a blast threat and risk assessment identified the threats to the campus, the likelihood of occurrence and the resulting overall risk.

Second, a blast vulnerability assessment estimated the consequence of a successful attack on the key areas of the site.

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